Walked into my LHBS this evening to buy the ingredients for this and the owner was busy pre-packaging PM grain bills for the Honey Wheat recipe. Says he's been inundated with requests for both recipes since they were released.

Walked into my LHBS this evening to buy the ingredients for this and the owner was busy pre-packaging PM grain bills for the Honey Wheat recipe. Says he's been inundated with requests for both recipes since they were released.

Sounds like this is some sort of Home Brew focused stimulus plan!

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oh, i picked up my grain for an AG ale batch yesterday. Gonna see about honey tomorrow. There's a beekeeper across my back fence but i dunno if he'll like the idea of me using his honey to make beer since he's a mormon. gonna go to the farmer's market and see if there is any local honey for sale there before giving up and going to the health food store for the darkest, murkiest wildflower honey i can find.

I can see them going to only one type of flower in a trip. Maybe in their little bee brains they figure if a red rose worked this time, a red rose will work next time too.

But when you say, "...bees will keep the honey for different flowers separate. ", what does that mean? Are honey, nectar and pollen interchangeable words? I figured once it got to the hive to be honey, it was all one mish mash of bee vomit.

They will tend to fill the cells and keep honey and pollen separate. For the most part been in a single hive will work a single species of flower. They will not mix different nectars unless they are out of space, and that's when the colony usually divides. They rotate their stock, and will consume all the 2011 honey before starting to work on this years. Then, females with specific roles will move in, clean out the cell, repair it, and the next batch of nectar is processed.

Don't blame him. If I were president, I would hire my own professional beer servants to provide my ale. I would even roll up my sleeves for the image while I drink it. I would also add a shooting range, but at some point taxpayers will get a little ticked. Again, I don't blame the man for living up what he can.

I'd love to try the beer. I just don't know if I like it enough to brew it myself. I'll have to keep mooching off others until I con someone into brewing it. lol